Composer: Claude Achille Debussy
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou, Edgar Moreau, Emmanuel Pahud, Renaud Capuçon, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Gérard Caussé
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Erato
Catalogue: 9029577396
Release: 2017
Size: 1.12 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Cello Sonata
01. I. Prologue
02. II. Sérénade
03. III. Finale
04. Syrinx for solo flute
Violin Sonata in G minor
05. I. Allegro vivo
06. II. Intermède – Fantasque et léger
07. III. Finale – Très animé
Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp
08. I. Pastorale – Lento, dolce rubato
09. II. Interlude – Tempo di minuetto
10. III. Finale – Allegro moderato ma risoluto
Piano Trio in G major
11. I. Andantino con moto allegro
12. II. Scherzo – Moderato con allegro
13. III. Andante espressivo
14. IV. Finale – Appassionato
The cream of the crop of French musicians—well, okay, Swiss for the flautist Emmanuel Pahud—come together to bring us a sumptuous album devoted to Debussy’s chamber music: Edgar Moreau for the Sonata for cello and piano, Renaud Capuçon for the Sonata for violin and piano, Gérard Caussé, Marie-Pierre Anglamet and Emmanuel Pahud for the Sonata for flute, viola and harp (these three very belated sonatas are the only ones that the composer had time to finish in his planned series of “Six sonatas for various instruments by Claude Debussy, French musician”). We find the same Emmanuel Pahud performing solo for Syrinx, and the album closes with the Trio for violin, piano and cello written in a still very classic—or even conventional—style and architecture (the shadows of Franck, Massenet and Fauré undoubtedly loom) in 1880, when the composer was residing in Florence with the von Meck family. This last work was released only a hundred years later… On the piano in all the collective works, you’ll find Bertrand Chamayou.